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kelly

Member Since 28 May 2008
Offline Last Active Jul 16 2011 11:09 AM
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In Topic: Australian Pyros

28 September 2008 - 12:59 PM

Yah, we're still around but the problem with putting your head up is that someone takes a shot at it! :( The biggest problem we have is the distance between us. I'm 2 1/2 hrs from Melbourne and 1 1/4 hrs from the state border and that's traveling at an average speed of 100 km/hr. It's not that I don't want to know and meet others with the same interest, it's the distance and the small number of us. It's not like we can decide to have an event on a Fri. night, meet everybody on Sat. and spend the day and Sun. having a good display and get home early Sun night, for work the following morning.
Other problems like a venue also inhibet us. I live in a country town and have limited access to a place to try my makings, but too much activity and the boys in blue are around and things get complicated to say the least.
So, how do about a dozen pyros in Victoria, and the others around the country numbering a total of maybe 50(?) country wide get the federal gov. to legalize amature pyrotechnics? and that doesn't get around the fact that some states seem to be atonomus, ignore the federal gov. and establish their own laws governing pyro activity and other things. :huh:

In Topic: Visco Machine

23 August 2008 - 11:32 AM

it looks to me the primary reel is spun around the hopper nozzle, so the bp is being fed into the primary winding at "x" depth, whilst being pulled by the take up reel, it also sounds more of a logical method than just letting the BP fall from "x" hight ,as the primary windings will be almost closed tight before the BP is in,

got any updates ? how about your pictures ?


phill 63
Your analysis of the machine falls in line with my own, after several viewings of the various machines on youtube. I've had a few runs, but at present I'm not satisified with the powder flow or pick up. I'm using an 8:1, spining to take up, ratio and get very nice string, about 4M per minute, but not fuse. Regards the photos I'm still waiting for my daughter to come home from Uni, but things are not good, my father in the States is ill and may not make it past Sept.. So the photos are on a low priority at the moment. I"ll try to do what I can as soon as I find time. :unsure:

In Topic: Visco Machine

14 August 2008 - 11:17 AM

can you upload some photos from your visco machine?


I'm not sure if I can as I'm not very computer literate, I'll have a go when my daughter comes home from university. I'm sure she can tell me how to do it, anyway I hope she can!

In Topic: Visco Machine

13 August 2008 - 01:26 PM

I just completed my Visco fuse machine and gave it a dry run (no powder) tonight. My question is, is the top group of strings supposed to wrap around the conical and then (being pulled down by the take up reel) close on the powder, or does the powder simply fall into the cone created by the strings and get closed by the rotation of the spinneret? The reason I'm asking is that the first method appears to be a more efficient and less wasteful than the second method, as the second allows for a large portion of the powder to fall where it may, making a fair mess and potential danger from spillage.

In Topic: Ball Mills

20 June 2008 - 12:09 AM

<_< There seems to be a lot of concern about media for milling. Try getting lug nuts from the auto wreckers, I got enough to fill a 5 litre bucket for the cost of a $6.00 donation to the Red Cross tin. Okay so they are steel, but these are only used in my charcoal drum. As for brass media, someone mentioned that they got sparks from brass, well as a nonferrous metal (a metal NOT containing carbon) this is impossible! I don't know where the sparks came from but it certianly was not from brass!!!!

kelly